The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for October 17, 2011

No wonder hospital costs keep going up.

Good Morning Marg, Susan, et all

See if you can get some extra catheters as well. Burl needs ’em for his “problem,” you know. By the way, what are you in here for? Are you still going to have supper at your house this coming Sunday?

Morning Leaky and Mikie…… and “Morgue” (even though you didn’t say good morning to me but I know you would have if I’d only been here…..right?)

And Good Morning to all the rest of Crustwood, when you arrive. (I got in trouble listing names before.)

Phew!

Love that it’s Ma who’s all sympathetic to Joy.

“Seventeen whole dollars??Of course, honey, I’ll let my insurance company pay the hospital $63.38 for one instead.”

I found it…. but what is it? Lips?

BTW, sorry I missed yesterday in Crustwood… a busy Sunday 2,000 miles from Illinois meant I couldn’t make Marlene and Dale’s party.

Hope you enjoyed the food

er….. didn’t eat anything there.

I don’t want to see you in the bed next to Ma.

I wanted to come back and chime in on yesterday’s discussion about membership…..

Yes, I pay for “Pro” status.

I much prefer full access to the archives, and my ad and pop-up blockers didn’t stop them all.

It’s only 99¢ a MONTH, 3¢ a day, though they do ask for a year at one time.

Some people said they ’d just read comics in the paper, instead….

Well, the local paper is $227 a year!!!

That’s what I can’t afford.

I decided a month of GoComics was a better value for a dollar than 2 newspapers or 2/3 of a cup a coffee.

Universal mostly supports this site by syndicating comics to those very newspapers, which are fading away.

Websites may soon be all we have.

When speculative internet investment ends, after decades of losing money, subscribers may have to cover the costs.

There will be a lot of sites then that I can’t afford……

but I can’t blame GoComics for asking 3 cents a day from people like me who spend so many hours here.

@SusanSunshine…I agree…I really enjoy this site so I don’t mind the 3 cents a day…it’s well worth it.

Spoken like a true Crustwoodian, Ras.

(Just joshin’. I do admire thrift.)

I’d be a lot happier if Gocomics had a bit better quality control. This comic is still too darn small.

Sounds like a steal to me. And that goes for the membership cost as well.

Morning all

..funny because it’s true…. I know people like that.

So….you all are plants for the company…..Well, I’m not paying !!

Susan, I decided to pay too, but the site has not answered me about putting it on PayPal (if I put it on a cedit card, I have to remember to change it with every update).

The spirit of Ebeneezer Scrooge’s housekeeper is alive and well with Joy. I’m sure she’s been taking other items with each visit; tape, scissors, sanitizer etc. If Ma’s there for any length of time the Penny’s will have a complete set of hospital dining wear right down to the trays.

JOY could have at least bought MA a large bag of…… Pork Rinds……….! ! !

actually, when you check out, the foam mattress, pillow, and blanket all go to the incinerator (standard disease/BBP control). the CNA that comes in to clean out your stuff will gladly let you take it—you’re paying for them regardless of the outcome, and it’s less work for her/him.

oh: and as mentioned above, the graphics here blow, it’s a free site, and for your money (judging by the complaints of “pro” victims) you get loadup issues, too: such as small or missing strips, strips for the preceding day, etc. i haven’t had any problems yet, so why go pro, and join the misery?

Can’t you just hit the magnifying glass to enlarge the comic? It works for me.

You need an ap that allows us to cancel unfunny comics like this one.

@agwaring – when you access the gocomics site on a laptop or desktop computer, there’s an Add/Edit comics link on your “My Comics” page, to do exactly that.

Wow — I’m Joy! How did you figure it out, Dr. Hydrogen?

LOL….. I guess now I can STOP paying for GoComics? Cos the Pennys don’t pay for anything!

I never said anybody HAD to pay for it — it’s FREE if you want it that way.

You have to decide whether the extra features are worth it in YOUR life.

You can’t make these comments in the newspaper, so I’d be coming here anyway, and it’s worth 99¢ a month to ME to have the archives and no ads.

I did say that one of these days, we’ll probably have to pay, *if*and when UClick/GoComics can no longer make the money to run this site by syndicating strips to newspapers.

Luckily, for people like me, that day hasn’t arrived. Meanwhile, I’m not lucky enough to have access to a free newspaper, or even a job right now, and I don’t go anywhere a lot of days.I seldom go to my bank, which has terrible, burnt coffee, over 4 miles away…So being online and making a pot of coffee is cheaper for ME, perhaps not for anyone else.But I think if the computer had a coin slot, no one would think 25¢ a week was much money.It’s an issue because they have to ask for a whole year in one lump.

GymShoe —

I’d consider that, but I paid in April, when I was “test-driving” GoComics in advance of the closure of Comics.com.

I did write to them about the size of the strips, in September, two days after they were made smaller.

I said I was afraid they were downgrading their own product, that I didn’t think it wise, nor was it fair to the artists, and I hoped it was a temporary glitch.

No answer so far.

$11.99 a YEAR, not month.

Good investment I say.

And who in their right mind brings blankets home from the hospital? I guess some do, but no thanks, you don’t know where it was before it was on you. Guess that’s my little phobia! :-D

Raspberry — I assure you, I’m in the same boat, except for having an old car and not being able to find work at my age in this poor economy.

No one buys me a thing, and it’s a struggle, but I’m not going to play “who’s poorer” cos I hate that stuff.

I said I wasn’t criticising anybody’s financial decision.

But I do want to point out, that as Dry reminded you, it’s $11.88 a YEAR, not a month, or I couldn’t do it, either.

That’s THREE cents a day, not six, a bit less than 25 cents a week.

And as ever, it’s up to each person. Somebody asked what each of us had decided to do, and explained my choice — I didn’t exhort you or anybody to join.

’Nuff said.